what matters is you, not the state of you.

A free-range group therapy called "get herded, idiot", where you and everyone in your group is set loose to run around on an open field while a highly trained shepherd dog tries to keep you all in one group. I am not sure what benefit this would have for anyone involved.

This would fix everyone involved including the dog

He did not cry. He only looked at me with eyes asking a question I could not answer: "Mama, when will I be able to walk and play again?" That question shattered my heart more than anything else.

I am begging you as a persecuted mother in Gaza, watching my baby bleed in front of me, unable to stop it. Please donate now and help me save his life before it’s too late.

Today no donations arrived, and I spent the day watching my baby Qais suffer without relief, feeling helpless and afraid. Please donate now and help me save him.

Every night, I promise myself I will stop begging and somehow find another way. Then morning comes, Qais still needs medicine, and I return with the same broken heart, asking for help again, please donate now.

thinking about the ethics of prophecy and its role as a narrative tool of coercion and control again

like. if you're beholden to a set of conditions that must either be followed or subverted in order to produce a favourable outcome or avoid unfavourable consequences (or led to believe you are), subject to the decree of a higher authority whose statements you are expected to accept as the absolute, unbiased, factual truth, and structure your existence in accordance with, is that not just prison? you can't convince me that isn't just an elaborate psychologically abusive prison.

it's not enough to simply defy the prophecy we need to abolish fate

It exists and it's called Portland, Oregon

the good news is that my cat is so happy, the bad news is that my sticker cutting machine that I got recently instils the same curiosity and lust for violence in my cat that my printer does so no matter what I do I will not know a moments peace.

certain people genuinely think merlin is a cold blooded killer with no personal wants beliefs or morals who only cares about arthur instead of like. someguy in their mid twenties with depression and a crap job who keeps losing the people he loves except this one (1) guy who keeps offering to help and follows him around and tells him to his face that he values merlin over arthur